Vo intizar tha jiska, ye vo sahar to nahin (It’s not the dawn we expected; It’s not the dawn we were looking for — Translated by Mahmud Jamal) THE words of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written in August 1947, may well be applied to the outcome of the long struggle for freedom of the media in […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice (CJ) Islamabad High Court (IHC) Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi on Thursday while issuing stay order once again directed a private TV channel to file reply till December 2 as to why it had been continuing with defamatory and baseless allegations against Jang/Geo Group despite the October 31 restraining orders. Requesting the court […]
KARACHI: The Jang Group is no stranger to being targeted, as it has been under attack for the past many years. During the last few months, however, the viciousness on display must have shocked everyone. The sheer venom and vindictiveness of the attack has forced us to speak plainly and unveil the reasons as well […]
When Mian Nawaz Sharif appointed Ata-ul-Haq Qasmi as the ambassador of Pakistan in Norway, I honestly did not think too much about that nomination. My reason then was and still is simple: after a long decade of relentless power struggle, administrative immaturity and political intolerance, it was not considered to be that big a problem. […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi on Thursday restrained a private TV channel anchor, Zaid Hamid and a senior journalist Mehmood Sham from printing, publishing or broadcasting any defamatory material against the Jang Group. The IHC CJ adjourned the matter till December 2, and directed the three respondents to […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday angrily reacted to the legal notice served to its chairman, Imran Khan, by Jang/Geo media group and objected against the “the gross abuse Imran Khan is being subjected to in the name of political humour on Geo”. According to a statement of the party, PTI Central Information Secretary Shireen […]
IT was some time in the first half of 2009 that I got a call from my director news telling me that the newsroom was now looking for more stories from the city of Faisalabad because the people meter, the ratings tool, had just been installed in that city. For the first time, ratings were […]
PUBLIC memory is short, so goes the proverb. This greatly helps the opposition when lambasting the incumbents for their shortcomings. The public rounds it up because it is rightly concerned with “today’s” misery, forgetting the factors that led to such hardships. The present is always linked to the past. On almost all TV networks, generally […]
Quite a lot of times, Pakistani TV talk shows discuss insignificant subjects. Do these talk shows achieve anything worthwhile? Many more burning issues such as education, health, infrastructure, low-cost housing, culture, etc. should be covered and discussed. In Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Laos, etc., not a single talk show exists. The TV programmes there have a […]
Our fast-growing media claims to keep the viewers engrossed as well as being the first to bring the news and it is rightly so, media has undergone a revolution in the first decade of 21st century in Pakistan. At the same time, it is unfortunate that most of the exclusive reports are neither filed by […]
ISLAMABAD: Broadcast news channels devoted “very little” prime time space to voter education in the campaign period before the 2013 general elections. But TV stations appeared to cash every chance to make money from political ads in the run-up to election day, suggests a report by the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has summoned columnist and journalist Nazir Naji to explain his position for accepting Rs3 million from secret funds of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in 1998. The notice has been issued to Naji to appear on October 10 after former director general of IB Col (R) Iqbal Niazi submitted his reply in […]
PESHAWAR: The government has been trying to lure mediapersons into writing “positive stories” concerning polio eradication programme so as to be among the recipients of the planned Media Awards, sources say. In a meeting held last month, the National Communication Technical Committee in Islamabad decided to give awards to reporters covering polio beat with a […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is one of the top 10 countries greatly affected by the climate change as our glaciers are melting rapidly and the sea level is rising. Therefore, environmental journalism and reporting has become very important in the country. This was stated by Journalist Afia Salam during the Agahi Awards ceremony held under the title […]
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